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Newspaper
Stamford American
Location
Stamford, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1932
Page
8
The chamber promotes a local tree and shrub planting drive with price lists from Mrs. Higher. She notes most plants are cheaper than last year except fruit trees and emphasizes offering only the best stock despite cheaper options elsewhere.
Rockdale residents report heavy December rains the largest in years easing roads to Stamford. Christmas saw some travel and illness with families visiting Eastland county. Mary Alice Abbott visits Abilene relatives while Mary J. Gourley of St. Louis faces repeated drunkenness fines.
The record details Raymond Hamilton a youth linked to assaults murder robberies and bank crimes across Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico. He is sought in Wharton Lufkin Hillsboro Carmine Dallas Grand Prairie and at Cedar Hill bank packing plant and interurban station with additional possible charges elsewhere.
Multiple Stamford families plus friends gathered for Christmas and holidays. Visits spanned Hamlin, Anson, Waco, Lubbock, Gatesville, and Meridian with reunions, dinners, and a Waco wedding return. A car wreck injured Rudolph Matecha and baby. both families were treated and returned home.
The regular annual meeting of the shareholders of The First National Bank in Stamford Texas will be held at the banking house in Stamford on January 10 1933 between 10 a m and 4 p m for the election of officers and directors or any other business that may come before such meeting. T A Upshaw Pres E G Keese Cashier.
Classified fragment notes a lost white gold flyin watch with reward offered by the American office. The item also lists Ramsey's Nursery in Austin with 57 years selling home-grown trees and a catalog offer. An Abbott Draughon's Business College tuition certificate is advertised for sale at the American office.
Wilson H. Elkins of San Antonio received the single Rhodes scholarship to come to Texas this year. He is a government student at the University of Texas, Austin.
Nine of the 56 children at Martus School near Lapeer Michigan are sons and daughters of the school director John Swoishe.
Read Rev Sam Morris letter printed on page one of this edition. The writer offers reflections and questions about community faith, urging readers to consider its impact and engage in local issues with steady resolve.
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